by PriamNevhausten » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:32 am
For a minute there it was like an episode of The Smurfs, with them saying the word "chemicals" arbitrarily every few words. Sweating out toxins? Nigga, please. And if the treatment is supposed to be acclimating the kid to food substances, why in fuck's name would taking her off the treatment have ANY adverse effects? Shouldn't her tolerance levels simply stay where they are, having been, you know, built up and all? And why did we hear no mention of any sort of way to deal with histamines, which, presumably, would be at the root of this allergy, if that is indeed what the affliction is? Granted, some of those pill bottles might have been along those lines, but THAT would be the important part, not this sauna shit.
My mother being a nurse and all, I've been sort of brought up in the idea that HMOs are ohmygodstupidandbad. But in this case, their response to the claim-filing was entirely appropriate.
edit: Also, may I note that the Youtube comments for that entry are actually the most constructive and literate comments I've ever seen on Youtube.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru